I just want to thank everyone for letting me do this for the last five years, especially the mods who brutalized quietly shut down the competition.

But this is the last time I'm doing it. I figure someone else would like to give it a shot, or someone else can figure out something a little more precise than my method, or maybe something completely different. It's also pretty time-consuming, and the way life's going, I won't have extra time next year as I gear up for life outside college.

So thanks again, and good luck to whoever takes it up next year, if anyone does.

Ones I agree with (also leaving out ones like PSP specific categories since I don't have a PSP. Mother 3 doesn't count either since it was just a fan project and no actual English version exists). I think the top 5 in GOTY are wrong:

Wii Game of the Year: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Console Action-Adventure Game of the Year: Grand Theft Auto IV (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360)
Console Adventure Game of the Year: Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure (Wii)
Console Puzzle Game of the Year: World of Goo (PC, Wii)
Console Fighting Game of the Year: Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
Handheld RPG of the Year: The World Ends With You (Nintendo DS)
Handheld Platformer of the Year: Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo DS)
Handheld Action Game of the Year: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (Nintendo DS)
Handheld Adventure Game of the Year: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Nintendo DS)
Handheld Puzzle Game of the Year: Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Playstation Portable)
Handheld Strategy Game of the Year: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (Nintendo DS)

I just want to thank everyone for letting me do this for the last five years, especially the mods who brutalized quietly shut down the competition.

But this is the last time I'm doing it. I figure someone else would like to give it a shot, or someone else can figure out something a little more precise than my method, or maybe something completely different. It's also pretty time-consuming, and the way life's going, I won't have extra time next year as I gear up for life outside college.

So thanks again, and good luck to whoever takes it up next year, if anyone does.

It would help if you'd post what method you were using. That way we could improve upon it. Oh and I'd also like to thank you for doing this the past few years. GAF's GOTY list is the only one I really respect, take seriously, and agree with. It seems whatever method you're using seems to work out fine, because the best game always wins.

Blame Sega for making the game console specific. Fuck this "optimization" bullshit, just be better at your fucking job.

Sega is so weird when it comes to PS3 exclusivity. The only reasoning I could think of is that Virtua Fighter 5 360 did really poorly and they decided that the Yakuza games and Valkyria wouldn't be worth it. It's even more weird that these are some of the only good games Sega are producing these days.